impulse shopping

i have a weakness...i like to buy music. well, no. the truth is i like to obtain new music, and since i haven't found a good way to do that cheap and legal it usually means i buy it. i walked into a music store the other day to find that they had a sale on. i picked out a couple cds, but saw so many i wanted i had to get two more. i could easily spend several hundred dollars buying music, just to catch up on stuff i would like to listen to that's been out for a while. keeping up with all the new stuff is incredibly difficult. if only i had high speed internet i could get into online radio and all that... or buying select songs online instead of getting a whole cd. it takes too long to download now on dialup so i don't bother. karen gave me a hard time when i got home for spending sixty bucks on music and told me those four cds had to fulfill my lust for new music till the summer. we laughed as i secretly plotted to get more later.

anyway, as you can see, the four cd's i ended up getting in that sale were interpol:turn on the bright lights, radiohead:ok computer, pearl jam:rearviewmirror, and beck:guero. interpol is a band from n.y. that my brother introduced me to. they sound to me like a cross between radiohead and coldplay. i like them; the only beef i would have is that their guitar playing can grow rather repetitive. good chill out/background music/muzak though. radiohead and pearl jam were both much needed additions to my music collection, and beck intrigued me. i thought he would add some depth to my collection and i knew one song that i liked on guero. the album is different musically from most of the stuff i listen to, but has a nice groove. his poetry style i find quite challenging...short snippets of thoughts strung together.

another band i should mention that i have been enjoying lately is arcade fire. if you enjoy artsy fartsy rock and roll in the genre of the white stripes and so on, check out the arcade fire - a montreal ensemble of canadians and imports. they're quite good.